They are part neighbourhood association centre, part temple, part community foundation, and almost always decorated in coiling dragons, paintings of Immortals, Confucian sages, Taoist demigods and Buddhist scripture, photos of ancestors and inlaid classical Chinese script.
Torquay harbourside has been awarded a Purple Flag from the Association for Town Centre Management.
Developed with Penzance and District Tourism Association, the centre is supported by Cornwall Council, Penzance Town Council and Visit Cornwall.
They include two Purple Flags from the Association for Town Centre Management.
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The Association of Town Centre Management confirmed the award and praised Hull Truck Theatre in particular "for its outstanding contribution" to entertainment for city centre users.
The Association of Town Centre Management has worked with the Purple Flag Advisory Committee, which includes representatives from central and local government, police, business and industry representatives.
The forum was organised in association with the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and focused on the findings and conclusions from an OECD study to map the scale and scope of OER initiatives in higher education.
The Director General met with the five laureates of the Eighth Edition of the Holocaust Essay Contest, organised by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Association "Verbe et Lumiere, " in presence of Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Dr. Ilya Altman, Director of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre, together with Mr. Paul Schaffer, Holocaust survivor and Honorary President of Yad Vashem-France.
Blunt was Cole's coach at the Football Association's now-defunct Centre of Excellence at Lilleshall between 1996 and 1998.
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After a first job at the Family Planning Association she then worked at the Midland Art Centre's Children's Theatre.
Supporting organisations include Pacific Youth Council, Oxfam, Commonwealth Youth programme Pacific centre, Auckland University Pacific Island Student Association (AUPISA).
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The BBC Sport team studied replays before alerting the British Olympic Association and officials at curling's Vancouver Olympic Centre.
He was referring to the chairman, secretary-general and treasurer of the Kenyan Football Federation at the centre of the continuing dispute between the association and the government.
Professor Tariq Ramadan, Andrew Copson, the chief executive of the British Humanist Association, and Douglas Murray, founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion, will also take part.
The witnesses include experts from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the UK Energy Research Centre, and the Combined Heat and Power Association.
Argentine courts have blamed Iran for the bombing of the cultural centre run by the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (Amia), which killed 85 people.
Eighty-five people were killed and some 300 injured when a car bomb exploded outside the cultural centre run by the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (Amia).
Mr Tanguy, who chairs the Guernsey Alzheimer's Association, Le Platon Residential Home and Les Cotils Christian Centre, said he was "quite amazed" by the honour.
As for other sporting venues, the Olympic Green Tennis Centre is now used by the Chinese Tennis Association, and several other sports centres are used by universities.
Mr Philip Sell, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham and secretary of the British Association of Spine Surgeons, said operations are carried out to prevent the curvature from becoming worse.
The town hall was used as an evacuation centre by police, council officials and a local housing association.
The National Taxi Association in Bristol (NTAB) challenged this but Bristol Civil Justice Centre ruled in favour of the rail operator.
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Nicholas Parkhouse, a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the McIndoe Surgical Centre in East Grinstead and a spokesman for the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, said the infection rate in the UK would be well under 1%.
The study, led by the Barcelona-based centre, is claimed to be the first in humans to examine the association between acrylamide exposure during pregnancy and birth outcomes.
Evidence was also given to the committee by representatives from the Coastal Monitoring Centre, Cardiff School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and the Local Government Association.
The UK Committee for National and International Hydrology (IHP), based at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) hosted the International Water Resources Association World Water Congress in Edinburgh this month.
The impressive Vidarbha Cricket Association, with its 45, 000 capacity, is situated a considerable distance from the centre of Nagpur with little or no public transport links, and once again there was a disappointingly small crowd.
Hamish Laing, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and consultant plastic surgeon at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, said it was a novel idea to make artificial skin that would not only cover the wound but actively fight infection.
It has been edited by Professor Tim Lang, of the Centre for Food Policy, Thames Valley University, and Dr Geof Rayner, UK Public Health Association.
Calder, who was a leader in the Scout Association for about 40 years, admitted five charges of lewd and libidinous practices and behaviour at Auchengillan Outdoor Centre, Blanefield, Glasgow, and Fordell Firs National Scout Activity Centre, near Dunfermline.
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